Horned Frog

Allenport PA

Description

I believe it is a female, she will be one year old in May. Size about 4 to 4.5" around. Comes with a plastic enclosure with side stick on heat pad, water bowl, rubberized tongs, vitamin dusts for live food and Pac Attack pellet food (you need to mash four together at a time she is so big). The picture is after washing her off, her enclosure is full of damp, sifted peat moss so she can bury herself. It is important to use sifted peat moss or coir so that there are no sticks or large chunks because she will inevitably eat some of the substrate. If she gets sticks, stones, etc in her gut, she will get impacted and die. It is possible to keep her on reptile carpet if she has a safe hide that won't mold due to the humidity that needs to be kept, but I had only been able to keep her that way when she was much smaller as her plastic housing is not large enough for an appropriate hide and water dish if keeping her on felt reptile carpet (not the fake grass reptile carpet). This is NOT a beginners frog and she is NOT easy to feed. She only takes food when she is well aware you are there and when it is dropped in front of her, preferably having touched her nose. I think she doesn't see well due to the color morph affecting eyesight. Currently she is feeding on Canadian night crawlers, large horn worms bought for feeding pets (clip the mandibles before feeding so they don't chew on her insides) and she loves the fresh hatched moths from horn worms that you grow to pupation size. She is too big, too clumsy and too poorly sighted to catch crickets or roaches - that shipped sailed when she reached about 2.5". It is fine to feed her mice once a month, but they need to be dead to avoid possible injury to the frog. She will NOT eat from tongs, even though a pair comes with her - they are only for very quickly grabbing things out of her cage. If you try to tong feed her, she will bite the tongs and could seriously hurt her mouth. If you get your hand too close, she will bite you - and she can launch her fat self about 5" in the air... and she has very sharp teeth (ask me how I know). It is possible to pick her up with both hands for cleaning the cage but ONLY come at her from behind and ONLY when she has been well fed the day before. Again, this is NOT a beginners frog! This is not a frog you can hold or play with. This is a frog for an experienced herp collector. Asking $40 re-homing fee, cash only, to ensure she goes to a home where she will be properly cared for.